skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems like what you're describing is more an artifact of where we choose to draw city boundaries than that Paris actually is denser in practical terms as experienced on the ground.

I mostly agree, but it's important to note that Paris is a lot smaller than NYC, so comparisons between NYC boroughs (which are each almost as big as the city of Paris) and Paris' surrounding departments are clearly favorable for NYC.

If you compare cities of similar size, i.e. Paris with Los Angeles (which is still bigger, both city and metro area), then the european capital is significantly ahead in density (and I did not cherry pick Los Angeles specifically, it's the same for Chicago, Houston, etc.), and the difference is very significant: Even the core of those US cities (excepting NYC) is less dense than the 3 inner Parisian suburb departments (!!).
>> could spend the effort doing something sustainable.

There are large groups of people in the US who are very limited in what they can do. Convicted criminals cannot get certain jobs. Sex offenders are basically barred from most all employment. Illegal immigrants have problems with finance. I wouldn't say that all scammers come from such backgrounds, but it is incorrect to say that anyone and everyone is free to do anything.
TimesFM: Time Series Foundation Model for time-series forecasting
> And the results were quite awful

This isn't true, you're looking at Flash as a monolith when really it was a bunch of things.

To it's users it was a place many teenagers learned how to be creative with computers, building games and animations and expressing themselves in online communities which had more in common with a proto-youtube/tiktok than what you think of online web games today.

Worth pointing out Adobe didn't care about that part of Flash in the slightest and almost all their dev work post-Macromedia was building systems that community couldn't really understand or see a need to use.

What Adobe saw it as was a video player and a cross platform application tool, but to be honest it just seemed like the team in charge of the cross platform frameworks were just not talented enough to make something at all performant, air/flex UIs always just felt incredibly janky and slow, the Mac team as well just never bothered optimizing Flash on a Mac until Jobs kicked off then suddenly it ran close to Windows speed 2 months later after running literally 30%-60% Windows speed for years.

Jobs was definitely right to kill the latter of what I'm describing but unfortunately the former was collateral damage.
When I think about it, there's literally not a single thing I know the true cost/value of. Everything comes with a trailing asterisk or an 'ish'.

A Sandwich: Sales tax and tip or service fee (the latter being taxed)

Car: KBB is a thing, but how much work does it take to get that, how much of a discount is the craigslist rando going to ask, are those tires good or fair?

House: Put the Zillow estimate in one hand and the inch-thick stack of paper that describes all the gotchas in buying or selling one in the other...

401k: There's an official number on that one, but it changes every 15 minutes, has 30% taxes if you take it early, and how do you figure the odds of living long enough to use it?

Mortgage: Another official number, but try sending them a check for that number and you'll find you owe them a little more for the interest that happened while the check was in flight, plus fees if it's in the fine print.

Salary: After taxes, deductions, bonuses, unicorn dust, what it says on your W-2 isn't even close to your alleged salary, nor is the amount that makes it to your checking account.

"Ah, but that's actual cash in my checking account," you smile, "as is this crisp fiver I clutch in my very hand."

Except it's not, because you're a dinosaur and your idea of a fiver was forged in an ancient time when it could buy a whole chicken or a sack of potatoes, depending on the day of the week, and what sales were on, so what you've got there is really a three-er.
The distinction can matter because the core purposes of the two are different. A "Labor" union is one that represents one side of the relationship between capital and the workforce: that is, the side that has a portion of the value it creates in its work extracted by the other.

It exists fundamentally in order to be able to collectively negotiate around the amount of that value extracted and attempt to retain more for those who create it. That in doing so it also establishes workers' rights, policies around treatment etc is a nice to have.

The police, as an extension of state power much like the army, are generally understood to be broadly on the "side" of capital (in capitalist states). They are not value-creating, and their "unions" have nothing to negotiate for a share of. This is why you'll more often see them represented as "associations" or "federations", much like civil service, nursing or fire service staff bodies. Their goal is simply to argue for better terms and conditions for their members.

Does the distinction practically matter? In many cases, no. When the interests of capital or the state are at stake, yes: police officers will break up labor union strikes, even when those officers are members of a federation. They are fundamentally not part of the same movement.
Posted this Chris Lattner interview about Mojo to HN yesterday. The video is just 6 days old. It's on the Developer Voices channel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40285414
Using gene-editing, they created more than 80,000 variations of the hemagglutinin protein with changes in one portion right on the top of the head domain and then tested a vaccine filled with a mixture of these variations on mice and ferrets.

It seems this "new strategy" is basically the brute-force approach.

Maybe a decade or two ago I would've been more optimistic, but it's very much in their economic interests to not have long-lasting immunity.
Seattle had had a majority progressive council until this year.
I think the word you’re looking for is paranoid, not cynic. And yes, you probably are paranoid
1) There's no way to have a set of readings that every Xth grader is going to enjoy. It's just impossible. There is a wide range of interests and predispositions and reading ability among people of the same age. It's obvious just from this sub-thread; everyone pipes up with a different set of books they disliked in school and they therefore think no one should have to read. I loved reading Julius Caeasar in high school and hated The Catcher in the Rye. I loved Dandelion Wine and hated Absalom, Absalom. Them's the breaks.

2) Part of the point of reading literature is to see things from a different perspective. i.e. to read things that are not necessarily "relatable", and thereby possibly expand your mind about the range of human experience. It's an opportunity to learn about history and learn about cultures other than your own.
Who doesn’t want to admit that? Businesses are groups of people. Is there anyone in the world who says large groups are perfectly rational?

A well-managed business tries to focus on profitability as opposed to, say, picking up horseback riding as a hobby. But the way profits are pursued is absolutely irrational and chaotic. Does anyone believe otherwise?
I've been using Wordpress for 14+ years for personal use and 6+ for business use, and in the last 6 years I've always used Elementor as a page builder, for all my different needs: ecommerce websites, landing pages, blogs, portfolios..

Incredibly easy to set up and use.
Sandy Munro's highly opinionated take on the Tesla layoffs [video]
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh... well, there it is.
Where I’m at my email is in Outlook. Having to use the web version sounds annoying. I also end up getting a lot of information in spreadsheets. Having to move all that to the online version to open also sounds annoying. The online version is also more limited, which could lead to issues.

I could see a front end dev needing Photoshop for some things, if they don’t have a design team to give them assets.

There are also security software the company says laptops must have which isn’t available for Linux. They only buy and deploy this stuff with Windows and macOS in mind.

A couple weeks ago on HN I saw someone looking for a program to make a demo of their app (I think). The comments were filled with people recommending an app on macOS that was apparently far and away the best option, and many were disappointed by the lack of availability elsewhere. I find there are a lot of situations like this, where I might be able to get the job done on another OS, but the software I actually want to use is on macOS. Obviously this one is a matter of taste to some degree.

It’s not as big an issue as it was 20 years ago, but it’s still an issue for in many environments.
Brute force is exactly how our immune system works.
similar title, similar comments this time next year, forever?
Growing up in a book dessert.
Motorized propellers have existed for 20+ years and are routinely used in spearfishing. What the heck is the news!? https://www.amazon.com/Nautica-Skipper-Seascooter/dp/B0BLP9Z...
HyperCard was what made me fall in love with computers and programming.

My specific "moment" was when I was a kid (probably 11 or 12 at the time) and went to see a presentation by a science professor about his work (my mom worked at the university, so I kinda had to go to this particular talk, because, well, she was my ride home)... It's hard to imagine, but presentation software like PowerPoint back then was in its infancy. Using computers to do presentations was a new thing (vs using slides developed on film or overhead projectors).

So to make his presentation, the professor created a HyperCard deck of all the slides he wanted to present. And, more importantly, he had to create little forward and back buttons on each slide to go forward or back in the presentation (again, he basically was creating a version of PowerPoint in that moment)...

But that's not what got my attention... Halfway through the presentation, one of the buttons on screen didn't work. He apologized, quickly switched to code edit mode, fixed the bug by adding a line of code, then went back to normal mode and continued his presentation. I can't remember anything else that happened other than being completely dumbfounded that you could change/edit a program's code like that while using the same software.

After that, I was hooked. I immediately got a book on HyperCard and learned how to recreate the miracle I saw in that presentation.

Long story long, HyperCard was PowerPoint or Keynote before slide deck software existed. And it blew my mind and launched my interest in a software career.
True. Just saying I see it being a viable system in some instances of those circumstances, but not all, nor most. But that under those circumstances it has a viable path.
> My point is the prose is a huge turn-off for most people and serves very little purpose in a modern society.

The commenter doth protest too much, methinks.
I got ECC on my previous system (at great cost) but had to settle for non-ECC for my current workstation since the cost of Threadripper builds has gone up so much since the 3xxx era. It's really frustrating, even if DDR5 (supposedly) has much lower error rates. Every time a game crashes I'm going to suspect the RAM.
> Pumped hydro is generally better for long term storage

Up to a point. Very long term storage is another thing again.

This twitter/X post has a very nice animated graphic of the predicted evolution of storage technologies over time (from 2020 to 2030), plotted against two attributes: duration of discharge, and # of cycles per year.

https://twitter.com/iain_staffell/status/1722544993179504965

Li-ion batteries and hydrogen are expanding the areas where they would dominate; pumped hydro is shrinking. Compressed air is getting squeezed out (no pun intended).
It isn’t the public’s responsibility to house you. Shelters aren’t meant to be your house
1. Temp tables are a bad idea, last I knew, because they increase the amount of data in the system tables (every time you create a temp table, you create records for it, it's MVCC, so they don't go away until VACUUMed) and system table bloat has been a serious problem for Redshift, since it seems only to go away on reboot. With a client now, lots of tables, takes 60 seconds to issue a system command. A previous client had to reboot daily. I simply advise clients not to use them.

2. Temp tables do not participate in k-safety, so you avoid that performance cost.

3. I suspect I've seen something odd happening with compression with temp tables. I've not investigated.

4. Using `CREATE TABLE AS` is, for me, verboten. Absolutely forbidden. This is because Redshift selects column encodings, and does a very, very poor job of doing so. Never let Redshift select column encodings (or sort keys, or distribution keys, or rely on auto-vacuum, or auto-analyze, and above all, never use AutoWLM).
That kinda makes sense, unless you want Rene to be your replacement.
How should one take a turn in a swimming pool with this?
But Swiss law can't make a request like that.
European Accelerationism
Call it what you want then; I will continue to refer to malloc/free as library functions since that's what they are to me -- functions that I can call, and if I don't call them, they don't come haunting me.
I guess it just seems strange to me for a union to be so rich, yet their members can't afford to live in regular housing. I grew up in a factory town in America with a unionized workforce and despite the things people say about American unions, the workers there all did very well. At least until the plant was sold to private equity about 10 years ago... I hear bad things now... but for several generations the union succeeded in getting the workers paid enough to be regular members of the community, not some sort of second class living in company/union housing.
Flash was an excellent tool for building things quickly and delivering them to a broad audience, and in many ways delivered on that promise to an even greater extent than HyperCard did in its day by being browser-based and multi-platform. The unfortunate part, though, was the vast gulf it created between Flash authors and Flash consumers. A sufficiently motivated tinkerer might be able to decompile a .swf and modify it, but this was a far cry from HyperCard's model of giving every user editing tools and making every stack a collection of parts to re-use.

Decker can export "locked" standalone decks which suppress the editors, but it's a trivial process to re-enable them. I've even seen a few games designed to "unlock" themselves once you complete them, which I think is a pretty neat reward.
I'm not on SRE teams so I'm curious how your team works:

- Is it remote?

- What is the update cadence?

- Is this information shared with Manager and "manager communicates team status"?
We did this in Guild Wars, yeah. I'm sure lots of other games are doing it by now. There were a significant number of Problem Customer PCs that would just crash all the time because of stuff that was obviously a CPU or RAM defect, though I don't know if it was half our crash reports.
You missed using PCR tests dialed up to way too many cycles to diagnose all of our livestock as "infected" with the bird flu, and using those bogus PCR tests to justify culling our beef supply. I also hope I'm wrong.
Trying to make it a standard is one of the least surprising things about it. You want accessories/components in your product to be as commodity as possible to drive costs down.
Papers (Supposedly) Given to John Carmack by Ilya Sutskever
Taken from https://twitter.com/keshavchan/status/1787861946173186062 and https://arc.net/folder/D0472A20-9C20-4D3F-B145-D2865C0A9FEE

'If you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today.'

I decided to save the list in case it disappears.

You can just get the all the arxiv pdfs with wget:

wget -A .pdf -r -H -D arxiv.org -nd https://punkx.org/jackdoe/30.html
How Much Patents and Copyright Take from Your Wallet
Brute-forcing the brute-forcer, if you will
What’s the best price/performance for a home lab server running Linux with ECC these days? Bonus points if it is rackable.

Sadly, my go-to Linux hardware manufacturers either don’t offer ECC RAM, or only offer it as an option on their absolute top-end machines. Yes, yes, the extra two thousand dollars for a machine with a six-year lifespan probably is worth it on a monthly basis, but man it still hurts.
Cool. More like an underwater 'monocycle', though. Make it into a full body struct in Y shape acting as kind of both 'guidon' and secondary propulsion axis -- more blades, an underwater tricycle. :)
+1 Rare to see a modern looking website that actually works well. Increases trust in the actual tool and makes me want to try it out.
What about non-motorised propellers?
Because it seems so very far away from your goal. What is it bringing to the table that makes it the best starting point?
HVAC has to account for the BTUs produced by all equipment. An office might have one or two refrigerators per floor, maybe a dishwasher. Apartments will have one in every apartment. Ditto for ovens, dryers. Even computers and TVs.
Was cassette tape storage more common in Europe than the U.S? I’m too young to have been around for this era, but I’ve just never seen it over here.
Elon Musk keeps proving he is a charlatan who will happily take money on a lie and then fight tooth-and-nail to give it back when people give up on his outlandish lies.
It's hard to convict if the crying never gets reported in the first place.
Do you disagree with the sentence before the one you quoted? I think we basically agree, you came up with a bunch of reasons that

> I think engineers using software should not be seen as an endorsement.
On a physical level, flash deals with pages and erase blocks. NVMe has LBAs defined but it's always been an awkward legacy thing.
I gambled against React and lost (and I don't regret a thing)
This 40 cycle SARS-CoV-2 PCR test would like a word with you...
Don’t kid yourself. Native Americans were just like any other peoples and warred against each other, took slaves or simply put the losers under the sword. People in any system are still people with the same tendencies. Culture can influence people up to a point. Even in strict places where you get killed for certain peccadillos people who enforce those mores are known to engage in those same peccadillos.

People might think the British were not brutal with their own people, but if you read up on the Clearances, you’d know they valued people less than sheep.
"Seabike says the prop turns slowly enough that you can safely use it at the local pool"

Felt a bit iffy about this claim. But looking at the research it seems cadence lowers normally when cycling under water.[0] Fun device. I wonder which pedals would be best for barefoot riding(?). Maybe those strapped ones fix riders like to use.

[0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/23706
Good quote, but also reminded me how much I hate Ian Malcom
I’m in the HN minority that actually likes Apple’s products and business model. I like the consistency the closed ecosystem brings, I like the product design, I like the vertical integration.

But this union stuff pisses me off to no end. Apple has high margins and is generally ahead of competitors in things like sustainability and supplier responsibility (yes yes not perfect, I just said ahead).

It would be 100% in line with the company’s ethos to embrace unions. Not necessarily to encourage, but certainly to treat them as an important part of the economy and a good check/balance to ensure the benefits of customer loyalty and high margins are shared with those who make it happen.

Just like renewables or supply chain audits, this wouldn’t have huge impacts on profits but it would make the world better. Serious misstep by Apple that pisses me off.
Options Are a Lottery Ticket
PHES consumes surprisingly little water, even in a desert. It's an order of magnitude less than evaporated by a thermal power plant of the same energy throughput.
> While Lisp is a dynamically typed, GCed language, MACLISP let you annotate variables to promise that they would only be called on certain primitive types, thus supporting compile-time optimizations for numeric code and not necessarily allocate memory, follow a pointer, unbox data etc.

And woe betide you if you happened to violate the preconditions of one of those annotations. That kind of programming is no better than C with "Segmentation fault. Core dumped."

The problem is that "system programming" or "embedded programming" isn't one thing.

There are people who want to throw around a zillion polygons at 144FPS. There are people who want max performance on x86-64 shoveling around millions of network connections. There are people who need guaranteed real time response or someone dies. There are people who need to stay asleep all the time to conserve battery and only wake up once every 5 minutes to chirp some RF.

These people do not have the same needs in a language yet they almost all wind up shoveled into C.
I think you meant to say Flu vaccine... wouldn't want you to be in trouble with the Ministry of Truth.

The CDC had to change the definition during the Covid pandemic to get people to take the shot.

New definition:
Vaccine: A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.
(https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm)
If I want to go deeper. I'll have to understand the trees _at that time_.

Not now, when I'm just re-exporting ESM node packages as CJS so our legacy system can work with them
Everything aside, Decker is such a great name. I know that one of the hardest problems in computer science is naming, and I don’t want to call out any projects with hard working maintainers but it is refreshing not to read about another project named “X”.
- Whens the last time you used an algorithm (eg b-tree) and for what?

I'd be curious to hear how many people like me would answer "for a coding interview" for this question.

I haven't coded such an "algorithm" since 2002 or so. The closest I've come is calling some framework library's binary sort method.
> I don't think this argument in particular stands well against reality

I think it does. I mentioned the salaries and perks offered by tech companies. I could also mention Henry Ford.

If something benefits the company then they will do it, and if it works it will naturally spread.

> Things that are in the interest of individuals rarely "sort themselves out" without some intervention

I didn't write "in the interest of individuals", I wrote benefitting both sides, which means, crucially, also benefitting the company. But again, in many cases happier employees simply do not provide a net benefit to the company.

Back to the point: The claim that unions benefit both sides is naive and a fairy tale. Obviously unions do not benefit companies hence why they are opposing them as much as they are legally able to.
What’s buffer? ( I’m getting no relevant search results)
Tips for Using AI-Generated Images in Your Slides
Those aren't VMs -- they're containers.
This is the issue.

Even when an entity is cornered for wrong-doing, it'll be a fine, paid with other people's money, that amounts to a pittance compared to the profits gained from their malfeasance, all while "admitting no wrong-doing".

The C-suite that made the call, set the culture, and determined budgets suffers zero penalties in a majority of the cases, so there is literally no incentive to comply.

We can thank congressional bribery for that.